{"id":3256,"date":"2017-10-09T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2017-10-09T19:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:32:47","slug":"fhmc-first-annual-softball-tournament-and-family-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/fhmc-first-annual-softball-tournament-and-family-day\/","title":{"rendered":"FHMC First Annual Softball Tournament and Family Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/fhmc-first-annual-softball-tournament-and-family-day\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3265\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fhmc-softball-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"330\" \/>Flushing Hospital Medical Center (FHMC) employees hit a grand slam on Sunday, September 24, 2017, at their First Annual Softball Tournament and Family Day.<\/p>\n<p>Over 28 departments from the hospital and upwards of 200 people, participated in playing ball, volunteering, cheerleading or just being a spectator.<\/p>\n<p>The daylong event took place at Flushing Meadow Corona Park where employees and their families were treated to a delicious BBQ donated by Sodexo and color coordinated team shirts,\u00a0 face painting and healthy snacks from Healthfirst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I am witnessing here today really embodies the word team. Although we work together every day, we don\u2019t always take the time to get to know each other,\u201d stated Rob Arbitello, game organizer. \u201cA great deal of work was put into this event and it was all worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3267\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fhmc-softball-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"230\" \/>FHMC administrators were on hand to cheer the teams that played and to meet employees&#8217; family members. CEO Bruce J. Flanz brought his pup, Miley, who quickly became the event&#8217;s mascot and the big hit of the day. \u201cWe could not have organized this event without the support of Mr. Flanz, Mr. Robert Levine; Executive Vice President and COO,\u00a0and all who donated their time and services,\u201d Arbitello noted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3272 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FHMC-softball-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"211\" \/>The winners of the Softball Tournament were the \u201cToe Taggers.\u201d\u00a0 They received trophies and took a well-deserved victory lap around the field.<\/p>\n<p>The event brought a fun day of competition to everyone. It is the hope of the organizers that this will become a yearly event for the employees to unwind and have fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3271 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FHMC-softball-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3273 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FHMC-softball-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareFlushing Hospital Medical Center (FHMC) employees hit a grand slam on Sunday, September 24, 2017, at their First Annual Softball Tournament and Family Day. Over 28 departments from the hospital and upwards of 200 people, participated in playing ball, volunteering, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/fhmc-first-annual-softball-tournament-and-family-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}